Forcing singleton reload

[jomu78]

Hi,

when the configuration in my application changes, I need to reload some stuff. So I have an EventListener

public interface ConfigurationListener extends EventListener {
  public void reloadConfiguraiton();
}

A singleton makes use of the configuration bean which can fire the ConfigurationEvent but when I add "implements ConfigurationListener" and the blank implementation of the above message I get an error message like

 org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: No component found for type 'test.SingletonTestBean' with name null

Without implementing the interface it is running as requested (except the config reload does not work for sure). This is running on Jboss 7.0.2 - why do I get the above error message

Is there a better possibility to force Jboss itself to recreate the Singleton on request?

Regards

Joern

[jomu78]

Hi,

I found a solution using CDI (JSR 299 / 330). Instead of using the listeners I now inject an javax.enterprise.event.Event instead.

@Inject
Event<ConfigurationReloadEvent> event;

ConfigReloadEvent is an empty class as I do not need any payload at the moment. When the configurtion is reloaded, I simply need to "fire" this event.

event.fire(new ConfigurationReloadEvent());

The listeners are also configured using annotations

public void reloadConfiguraiton(@Observes ConfigurationReloadEvent event) {
  // do what ever needs to be done when notfied about config reload
}

So no need to destroy and re-create the singletons, they just listen on the event and do whats needed. You only have to take care about the synchronisation - you never know when the event is fired and in which status your application currently is.